Re: Weird 2003 SBS Server Timeouts (30000 milliseconds) waiting for a transaction response

From: Henry Craven (IUnknown_at_d.com)
Date: 03/12/04 

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 13:20:16 +1100

First thing I'd do is bump the RAM to a Gig or more.
.....then see how you go. 

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"lagges" <plagges@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hope someone can help on this one.
>
> A new Compaq Server running two months now.  SBS 2003 c/w all updates
(I
> mean all! )RAID 5, 512 Mb of RAM, 2.8 Xeon.  Server hangs like
clockwork
> serveral times a day hanging all clients for a minute or so then it
comes
> back.
>
> This is what I have discovered over the week of troubleshooting.  I
> consistently get about 6 errors in the system event log all event ID
7011
> when it temporarily hangs.
>
> 1) Timeout (30000 milliseconds) waiting for a transaction response
from the
> NtFrs service.
> 2) Timeout (30000 milliseconds) waiting for a transaction response
from the
> Norton AntiVirus Server service.
> 3) Timeout (30000 milliseconds) waiting for a transaction response
from the
> GFI POP2Exchange service.
> 4) Timeout (30000 milliseconds) waiting for a transaction response
from the
> DHCPServer service.
> 5) Timeout (30000 milliseconds) waiting for a transaction response
from the
> Norton AntiVirus Server service.
> 6) Timeout (30000 milliseconds) waiting for a transaction response
from the
> GFI POP2Exchange service.
>
> These are pretty consistent and sometimes different services come up
instead
> of those shown.  And right before all this happens I get and
Information
> Event ID 119 - The driver for device \Device\Harddisk0\DR0 delayed
> non-paging Io requests for 218 ms to recover from a low memory
condition.
>
> Another item to note is
> The inetinfo.exe process is allocating more memory than usual. The
following
> services are hosted by this process: IISAdmin, POP3SVC, RESVC, and
SMTPSVC.
>
> This process is running really high from 96000K to 120000K with no
traffic
> on the server
>
>
> Has anyone experienced this or have any recommendations on how to
further
> troubleshoot.?  It has just gotten worst over time.
>
> Help much appreciated.
>
> Regards
>
> Peter
>
>

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